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Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!
December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily.
They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.
Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.
No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?
There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {
It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.
is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. If so, where on the list?
The Free Software Foundation revised the GNU Free Document License (GNU FDL) to allow public Wikis to relicense their content (by August 1, 2009) to the Creative Commons By-SA 3.0. The CC By-SA is the most FDL-like of the CC licenses. Apparently, they were asked by the Wikimedia foundation to do this. Woo hoo!
I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)
Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.
A panel of judges, selected by Social Actions will choose three winners from among the 20 finalists, to be announced at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference , April 28, 2009. Submissions period begins on February 23, 2009, at 11 am PST, and runs through April 3, 2009, at 3 pm PST. How To Participate.
I stopped at the license agreement. I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) It booted fine.
But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08
Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07
In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. “bad&# companies.
The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07
"As of May 13, 2011, we are releasing the code for our community software platform, the Zanby Enterprise Group Family System, under a GPLv3 license. Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009.
Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.
Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.
Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.
It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.
MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Thanks for a great site!! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.
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And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). Although they weren’t doing it when I made the purchase, Dell is now including licensed DVD playback software. And that’s just so stupid. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08
It is a rock-solid distribution with what is arguably the best package management system. Ubuntu is based on Debian). It has a vibrant user community. Debian is the favorite of most serious Linux geeks. And, luckily, once you’ve learned some Linux, supporting other distributions isn’t such a big deal. {
Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.) So what’s the right strategy? That totally depends on a few factors. First, are you happy with your current CRM and CMS?
In 2009, we finalized a technology plan. At this point, the servers were aging and needed to be replaced, and we needed new software and user licenses (MS Exchange Server), as well. When the analysis was done, I created a proposal with my recommendations, which was approved by October 2009.
Brian Rowe has put together a great panel at the 2009 NTC , " Fair Use, User Generated Content, Terms of Service and the DMCA Safe Harbor Act " I'll be the first to admit that intellectual property law sounds like it could replace the Tylenol PM in my travel bag. We use Creative Commons to license all of our reports, etc. .
With the new release (and as with the 2009 version) both single - and multi-user versions (with 3 licenses) are available. Additionally, an organization with a QuickBooks product that has three-user licenses can acquire a single-user license of the same QuickBooks product and convert those into a four-user product.
We’re back from 3 full days of the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , and energized by meeting people doing such good work all around the world. We announce the winners of the 2009 DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards at the closing lunch on Tuesday to a packed ballroom. You Made a Video, No What?
It was launched in 2009, and as of May 2015, it contains 83,000+ recordings. Search comes with a few nifty features like filtering by BPM (beats per minute, or the tempo of the song), duration, or what kind of license is associated with the track in question. Choose the Right License for Your Project. Customize your search.
This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent. More Power, Lower Prices.
For fiscal years beginning in 2010, organizations with income less than $50,000 ($25,000 for 2009) need only file the online “e-Postcard,” Form 990-N. Obtain permits and Licenses : Check on regulatory requirements before undertaking activities such as serving liquor at a special event, conducting a raffle, or starting a bingo night.
Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. Wikipedia Loves Art, Take Two In June of 2009, Dutch Wikimedians tried again.
By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. ” IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.
The late 2009 release of the Open Government Directive is really exciting and I'd like to see an analog in the nonprofit community -- an Open Nonprofit Directive if you will, to encourage transparency, participation and collaboration. Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address? We're in a deep recession.
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Remember, back then Microsoft Office Suite came in a box with licenses, and each package contained a. " In 2009, Ben-Horin received the "Lifetime Achievement. Microsoft even. gave us a grant to build new shelves to hold our inventory, but - all. the while - encouraged us to think bigger. in San Francisco.
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